Public Safety
Delaware inmates’ families, advocates grill officials about transfers to Pennsylvania
Delaware Gov. Carney and prison leaders are transferring up to 330 inmates to state prisons in Pennsylvania. Inmates' families and advocates grilled officials about the moves.
8 years ago
Democrats moving into House breathe new life into Toomey’s gun bill
The Toomey-Manchin gun control bill that fell just a few votes shy of passage after the Sandy Hook shooting may get a fresh chance in 2019.
8 years ago
Listen 4:43Labor leaders, city officials spar outside Council chambers
Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 attempted to push through a contested bill requiring costly new annual inspections of the fire protection devices mandated for most high-rise buil
8 years ago
Philly’s most dangerous roads clustered in black and brown neighborhoods
46 percent of Philly's most dangerous roads are in poor areas mostly populated by people of color, according to an analysis of city crash data done by the Bicycle Coalition.
8 years ago
New ‘Safe Corridors’ program brings parent patrols to opioid-plagued Kensington
The Philadelphia Resilience Project’s Safe Corridors initiative intends to make walks back and forth to school safer
8 years ago
Berks County law enforcement hope new technology can help curb gun violence
"Now, we can match those casings from one incident to the other, we can start putting those pieces together."
8 years ago
Philly’s forfeiture machine: How selling homes seized by cops hurt poor neighborhoods
Selling homes seized by law enforcement was supposed to improve communities. But a new WHYY investigation found it's added to blight in some of Philly's poorest neighborhoods.
Air Date: December 11, 2018
Listen 12:31Anti-Semitic papers reported near Pittsburgh shooting site, elsewhere
Authorities are investigating the dissemination of anti-Semitic pamphlets in Pittsburgh neighborhoods, including the one in which a gunma ...
8 years ago
Life sentence for Delaware man who abducted, raped and tried to drown 4-year-old girl
An Elsmere man who kidnapped a 4-year-old girl from her home in Pike Creek, then raped her and threw her into a pond to drown has been se ...
8 years ago
Running early: How Philadelphia’s ‘scoop and run’ practice saves lives
In Philly and Camden, many shooting victims arrive at trauma centers in the back of police vehicles. Is this "scoop and run" practice saving lives?
Air Date: December 6, 2018
Listen 12:22Delco study: Pipeline blast could be devastating, but risk is low
A flammable vapor cloud could spread as far as 1.3 miles downwind of a rupture, a consultant says.
8 years ago
Union scores hot win over real estate industry in fire code battle
City officials are brokering a deal they hope will extinguish a feud over Philadelphia’s fire code.
8 years ago
Tears in Jamestown: A Pennsylvania company’s role in the global tear gas trade
Why a western Pa. company that's become a major player in the global tear gas trade is also embroiled in a legal battle with neighbors of its manufacturing facilities.
Air Date: December 3, 2018
Listen 16:10Magnitude 7.0 earthquake shakes Alaska, damaging roads
A tsunami warning was temporarily issued for coastal regions of Cook Inlet and the Southern Kenai Peninsula, but it has since been canceled.
8 years ago
Key trial issue: Why did driver plow into counterprotesters?
Why did James Alex Fields Jr. plow his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia last year?
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